# Tables Problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tables-problem/176963>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [January 28, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tables-problem/176963 "2006-01-28T16:46:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ferghal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/977dab/32.png) [@Ferghal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ferghal)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tables-problem/176963/1 "2006-01-28T16:46:58Z")

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Im a having a problem with my tables, the content to the left of my tables push the tables down so there are big gaps between the images…

View: [http://www.ferghal.com/beta51.php](http://www.ferghal.com/beta51.php)

This is the HTML I am using, since Im no good with CSS…

```auto
<td colspan="7" valign="top" background="images/v12/right_bg.gif">
			<img src="images/v12/beta51_16.gif" width="219" height="23" alt=""></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td colspan="2" rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#EAEAEA">
			<img src="images/v12/beta51_17.gif" width="43" height="222" alt=""></td>
		<td width="139" height="151" colspan="3" valign="top" bgcolor="#000000" class="main style1"></td>
		<td colspan="2" rowspan="2" valign="top" bgcolor="#EAEAEA">
			<img src="images/v12/beta51_19.gif" width="37" height="222" alt=""></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td colspan="3" valign="top" bgcolor="#EAEAEA">
			<img src="images/v12/beta51_20.gif" width="139" height="71" alt=""></td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td width="23" height="168" valign="top" bgcolor="#EAEAEA">&nbsp; </td>
		<td width="176" height="168" colspan="5" valign="top" bgcolor="#EAEAEA"></td>
		<td width="20" height="168" valign="top" bgcolor="#EAEAEA">&nbsp; </td>

```

Does anyone know how to prevent this?